Daily Lumina News 010422

For James Ruffin III, going to college classes was an “escape.” It took him out of his housing unit at Jessup Correctional Institution and into the sanctuary of a classroom.
More important, the University of Baltimore classes themselves began to change the way Ruffin looked at life.

A new “Cradle-to-Career” educational data system is taking shape in California.
The goal is to provide an array of information on one platform that will provide tools for students to better navigate the education system and give educators a closer look at students’ needs and ideas to better serve them.

Education for the skilled trades is making a comeback.
Enrollment trends and other signals confirm that more Americans are seeing firsthand the labor shortages in fields such as construction, transportation and logistics, along with rising pay for those kinds of jobs and the lower debt and the shorter timetables needed to train for them.

The arrival of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 is leading more colleges and universities to shift plans for the semester that starts this week on many campuses.
Some institutions face criticism for doing so—and some face criticism for not making changes.